Why Don't You Do Right

Why Don't You Do Right?↗, is a blues song made popular in the cartoon animation Who Framed Roger Rabbit↗, sung by Amy Irving↗ (as Jessica Rabbit.)

Title: Why Don't You Do Right. Date: 1936. Music: Kansas Joe McCoy. Lyrics: Kansas Joe McCoy. Singer: Amy Irving and many others.

Why Don't You Do Right

You had plenty money, 1922 
You let other women make a fool of you 
Why don't you do right, like some other men do? 
Get out of here and get me some money too 

You're sittin' there and wonderin' what it's all about 
If you ain't got no money they will put you out 
Why don't you do right, like some other men do? 
Get out of here and get me some money too 

If you had prepared twenty years ago 
You wouldn't be a-wanderin' from door to door 
Why don't you do right, like some other men do? 
Get out of here and get me some money too 

I fell for your jivin' and I took you in 
Now all you got to offer me's a drink of gin 
Why don't you do right, like some other men do? 
Get out of here and get me some money too 
Why don't you do right, like some other men do? 
Like some other men do

above: A clip from the animation Who Framed Roger Rabbit, of Jessica Rabbit performing Why Don't You Do Right.

YouTube search: Why Don't You Do Right, Jessica Rabbit↗


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